A couple of film makers reunite and travel to the Amazon River so they can produce a reimagining of a classic movie.
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Anaconda
Written by: Tom Gormican, Kevin Etten
Directed by: Tom Gormican
Starring: Jack Black, Paul Rudd, Thandiwe Newton, Steve Zahn, Daniela Melchior
Complete cast and crew are HERE
Rated PG-13
Running time: 99 mins
The movie moguls acquire a cameraman and a leading lady, manage to scrape together enough funds to get started and somehow manage to journey to to Amazon and start their production, netting a snake trainer with his own pet anaconda. Everything immediately starts going amiss.
So look: There’s fun, stupid fun, and just plain stupid, and for the most part, this is just stupid. There are a few laughs along the way, sure. There are a couple of moments of tension and horror, I’ll give it that. But it never can figure out what kind of movie it’s supposed to be, so it stumbles along until it turns the path down into blithering idiocy. At least one scene served no purpose except to make me writhe in my seat in disgust. There were no real surprises, nothing you haven’t seen before and probably didn’t want to see again.
It get some points for beautiful cinematography and sound, but this was one I could hardly wait to be over.
These great actors deserved better.
Skip it and when you see it’s streaming, skip it again. There is nothing of note after the credits start rolling so feel free to slither on out.
Flytrap rating: 4/10
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